Mike Ettling vs Aneel Bhursi

Mike Ettling

CEO of Unit4

BIO: Mr. Mike E. Ettling, MSc (Finance), CA (SA, UK) has been the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director at Unit4 N.V. and Unit4 Business Software Ltd. since April 16, 2019. Mr. Ettling has been a Non-Executive Director of MOVE Guides Ltd dince December 2017. Mr. Ettling served as the President at SuccessFactors, Inc until February 2018.. Mr. Ettling is a qualified accountant with over 20 years of experience of executive management, particularly in the technology and HR outsourcing sector.

Aneel Bhursi

CEO of Workday

BIO: Aneel co-founded Workday with Dave Duffield in 2005 with a simple idea: build enterprise software that puts people at the center. Over the past two decades, he has helped guide the company from startup to one of the world’s leading enterprise AI platforms for managing people, money and agents. Throughout Workday’s journey, Aneel has served in a range of leadership roles, including co-CEO from 2009 to 2014 with co-founder Dave Duffield, CEO from 2014 to 2020, co-CEO from 2020 to 2024, and executive chair from 2024 to 2026. He has been a member of its board of directors since its founding. For over 25 years, Aneel has been a product visionary and leader in enterprise software. Before Workday, he held several leadership roles at PeopleSoft, including vice chair of the board and senior vice president responsible for product strategy, business development, and marketing. In addition to his role at Workday, Aneel is a member of the board of trustees at Stanford University and serves on the boards of the Workday Foundation, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Eat. Learn. Play. He has previously served on the boards of several public and private companies, including Cruise, General Motors, Intel, Okta, and Pure Storage. Aneel holds an MBA from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and economics from Brown University. He is a Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.